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MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG today will mail a letter to more than 2,000 top Democratic donors, urging them to withhold contributions from the Democratic senators who joined with Republicans in April to oppose an expansion of background checks for gun purchases: “Instead of rising above politics to pass a law that would save lives, these four Senators—Max Baucus of Montana, Mark Begich of Alaska, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, and Mark Pryor of Arkansas—sided with a gun lobby increasingly out of touch with Americans' priorities. I am writing to ask you: the next time these four Senators want you to support them with donations to their campaigns, tell them you cannot. … [U]ntil they show they will stop bowing to pressure from the gun lobby, you should not support them.”

--LETTER WILL GO to former donors to those four senators, plus $5,000+ donors to DSCC in last several cycles.

--N.Y. Times p. 1, “Donors Urged To Shut Wallets Over Gun Votes,” by Nicholas Confessore and Jeremy W. Peters: “For Senator Charles E. Schumer, … the notion that Mr. Bloomberg’s efforts could cost Democrats their majority is not an abstraction. He praised the mayor’s effort, but added, ‘We should be mindful that pro-gun safety laws have a much better chance of passing under a Democratic Senate majority than a Republican one.’ Mr. Bloomberg’s idea to use his formidable resources against Senate Democrats was enough of a threat to the majority leader, Harry Reid, that he raised the issue with the mayor in Washington in February. … Reid told the mayor that he thought any efforts to attack Democrats would be shortsighted, and could ultimately result in a Republican Senate majority.” http://nyti.ms/14VWSog

ENGAGED: Jon Romano of Fix the Debt, to Jennifer Paolino, Office of Chief of Protocol, Department of State, on a perfect beach in Fano, Italy.

CLICK DU JOUR: White House aides tell their personal immigration stories in a video, “White House Staff: Our American Stories,” featuring Senior Adviser David Simas, who shares his parents’ journey from Portugal; Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer; Gautam Raghavan, Associate Director of Public Engagement; Tina Tchen, Chief of Staff to the First Lady; and more. “The White House, like all offices, is filled with stories that started abroad.” http://bit.ly/1a3iuVh

PALACE INTRIGUE -- “Senate Democrats divided on immigration,” by Manu Raju and John Bresnahan: “Sen. Chuck Schumer’s pitch to find 70-plus votes for a sweeping immigration overhaul is running into skeptics from his own party – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Majority Whip Dick Durbin. The top two Senate Democrats believe that the push to win more GOP senators could significantly water down the measure, arguing their party should instead focus on the more achievable goal of securing the 60 votes needed to break a … Republican filibuster. The Democratic leaders don’t believe they should make major concessions to conservatives — mainly on issues such as border security — in order to inflate the vote tally. But Schumer argues that if Democrats win only a handful of Senate Republicans, the House will balk at the Senate’s approach, imperiling the push for a comprehensive bill in this Congress. … Reid and Durbin are convinced that a forceful posture toward Republicans will force the House GOP to buckle since the party acknowledges it must right its standing with Hispanic voters …

“Schumer’s main fear is that jamming through a bill with only limited Republican support will embolden GOP opponents of immigration reform in both chambers into derailing the legislation he’s painstakingly worked to produce. … The immigration debate comes at a critical moment for Schumer, a 14-year Senate veteran, who cut his teeth as the party’s chief political tactician when he led the Democratic charge to win the Senate majority in 2006 and 2008. … [In] this Congress, Schumer has sought to make nice with Republicans as he’s attempted to negotiate deals on guns and immigration. …. Democrats now hold a 54-46 Senate majority, and they could lose two or three of their own when it comes time for final passage before the July Fourth recess. Schumer — along with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) — has his eyes on winning upward of 19 Republican senators, but to do that, Democrats will have to agree to tougher border security provisions.” http://politi.co/11yuRlE

--“Leahy files gay couples amendment,” by Seung Min Kim: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy [D-Vt.] … filed an amendment to the Gang of Eight immigration bill on Tuesday that would allow gay U.S. citizens to petition their foreign spouses to become permanent residents. He had withdrawn the measure after an emotional debate during the committee markup, after several Democrats said they would vote against his amendment in order to preserve the overall bill. Republicans in the Gang of Eight had threatened to oppose the group’s bill if Democrats approved Leahy’s measure. … It is unclear whether Leahy’s proposal will get a vote. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have yet to reach an agreement on amendments. … Later this month, the [Supreme Court] is expected to rule on the Defense of Marriage Act, and if that law is overturned, same-sex couples might be able to petition for green cards.” http://politi.co/1bv0Qb1

YOU’RE INVITED: What would passage of immigration reform mean for Goldman Sachs? Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and CEO, will answer this and other questions from Ben White at POLITICO’s Morning Money Breakfast Briefing, tomorrow at 8 a.m. in downtown D.C. Outside cameras welcome. Location when you RSVP here. http://politi.co/Zyjk8i#MorningMoney

41 IS 89! PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH birthday today: “The George Bush Presidential Library Foundation will celebrate … by wearing exuberant socks … The Foundation encourages others to join us in this celebration of the President's 89th Birthday and post photos of your socks online. President Bush has recently been recognized for his penchant for wearing bright socks. At the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in April, for example, he wore bright pink socks with a hint of blue. In 2012 he told his granddaughter Jenna Bush Hager, that he ‘likes a good sock.’

“Join us in wishing President Bush a Happy Birthday by wearing your most colorful or outlandish socks. All are invited to submit a photo wearing crazy socks to share in the birthday festivities by: Post to the George Bush Facebook page: www.facebook.com/georgebush41 ... Tweet to the George Bush Foundation twitter account, @GB41Foundation (Hash tag #41s89th) … Email bushfoundation@georgebushfoundation.org. Select birthday sock photos will be chosen and given to President Bush for his 89th birthday.” www.georgebushfoundation.org/socks

--“The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M University [in College Station] will host a birthday celebration in honor of President and Mrs. Bush [today]. ]Museum visitors are invited to join for free birthday cake, Blue Bell ice cream and refreshments in the Rotunda of the Bush Library and Museum from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. For more information, visit www.bushlibrary.tamu.edu.”

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COMING BATTLE – WashPost col. 1, “High-tech giants urge openness on probes: Google, Facebook, others ask U.S. to lift gag orders in national security cases,” by Craig Timberg and Cecilia Kang: “Google and Facebook, whose business models depend on … users voluntarily sharing information about themselves, have denied participating in a surveillance program as broad as described in news reports … Yet all the companies named in reports have struggled to stanch the damage to their reputations … Google … published an open letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III requesting the right to report publicly the numbers and scope of national security data requests … Facebook soon after issued a statement suggesting that it may start publishing its own ‘transparency reports’ — a move the company has long resisted. … The moves sought to recast the companies as defenders of user privacy rather than willing participants in surveillance.” http://wapo.st/18wij6y

PULLING BACK THE CAMERA -- WSJ 4-col. lead, “Global Tumult Grips Markets,” by David Wessel: “The tectonic plates of the world economy are shifting, moving the yield on the 10-year Treasury to the highest level in more than a year and shaking financial markets from Tokyo to Mumbai and Johannesburg to São Paulo. For the past few years, the global economy, struggling to recover from a financial crisis, has relied on a few constants: The U.S. would print plenty of money and keep interest rates very low. China would provide a lot of demand and vacuum up commodities from around the world. And Japan was largely irrelevant. Suddenly, all three of those are being questioned in markets, triggering paroxysms in stocks, bonds, commodities and—particularly, in the past couple days—the currencies of emerging markets….

“The big questions hanging over markets and the global economy now: Is this is the inevitably bumpy beginning of a welcome return to normal—a world in which the U.S. economy doesn't need big and repeated doses of monetary stimulus, Japan grows again and China's economy gently slows to a sustainable speed? Or is it a harbinger of more volatility … perhaps the result of a misreading of the Federal Reserve's policy intentions … or a premature move by the Fed to cut back on easy money—that yields an unwelcome increase in market interest rates before the U.S. economy achieves what Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke once called ‘escape velocity’? … [T]he uncertainty is producing a lot of volatility. … The prospects for slower growth in China … are pulling commodity prices down.” Free link http://on.wsj.com/13BeqGP

BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): David Cohen, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, is 5-0. His staff feted him with chocolate cake and a glossy portrait of John Stamos … (was Sunday): Devin Banerjee, who covers private equity for Bloomberg News, is 24.

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